You Dreamed of Empires: A Novel by Álvaro Enrigue (Paperback)

Fiction - Literary - World Literature - Mexico - Historical  Translated by: Natasha Wimmer RELEASE DATE: 12/31/2024  (WILL SHIP DIRECTLY FROM OUR SUPPLIER'S WAREHOUSE) Originally Published in Hardcover on 1/9/2024 From the visionary author of Sudden Death, a hallucinatory, revelatory, colonial revenge story. One morning in 1519, conquistador Hernán Cortés entered the city of Tenochtitlan – today's Mexico City. Later that day, he would meet the emperor Moctezuma in a collision of two worlds, two empires, two languages, two possible futures. Cortés was accompanied by his nine captains, his troops, and his two translators: Friar Aguilar, a taciturn, former slave, and Malinalli, a strategic, former princess. Greeted at a ceremonial welcome meal by the steely princess Atotoxli, sister and wife of Moctezuma, the Spanish nearly bungle their entrance to the city. As they await their meeting with Moctezuma – who is at a political, spiritual, and physical crossroads, and relies on hallucinogens